10 Bizarre Metal Covers Of Classic Songs

10. Smooth Criminal - Alien Ant Farm

And first off, let's just talk about the most fun that the nu metal genre could ever hope to get. Since most of the backyard party jams coming out of the '00s were reserved for bands like Sum 41, how the hell were the angry white boy crowd going to find themselves in the same arena? Well, Alien Ant Farm found a way by getting as far away from the genre as they dared.

While covering Smooth Criminal did firmly place them in one hit wonder territory for the foreseeable future, their letter perfect take on the King of Pop is still one of the best things to come out of the scene. Complete with one of the corniest videos of the time, every homage is note perfect, from the different 'hee-hees' going on in the background to the guitar riff absolutely crushing from the moment it starts.

That's not to say that starting off this good leads to a long career though, with most of Alien Ant Farm's later records falling by the wayside and quickly putting them back in the bargain bin of rock and roll. Then again, when you think of the surge of metal in the '00s, this still elicits all of the good memories from back in the day. In between all of the Staind singles out in the world, we could have used a lot more songs like this in our lives.